Oscar Wilde

"Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose sweet rains fall on unjust and just alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undisturbed. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole."
Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

J.K. Rowling

“I don’t go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.”
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter

Susanna Clarke

“…With the ashes that were her screams and the pearls that were her bones and the counterpane that was her gown and the magical essence of her kiss, I was able to divine your name…”
Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

J.M. Barrie

"Second to the right, and straight on till morning."
J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan

Charlotte Bronte

"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me;
I am a free human being with an independent will . . ."
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

William Blake

"To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
An eternity in an hour."
William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

Weekly Geeks #17 - quotes

This Week's Geeks

is to post a different quote every day for a week. Mine are all literary except this, Regina Spektor's musical ode to Oedipus Rex.

"Sometimes I'd stand by the royal wall, the sky'd be so big that it broke my soul."
Regina Spektor - Oedipus